The forthcoming edition of the SAIS Review published by Johns Hopkins University Press includes an article titled “Fast Data, Slow Policy: Making the Most of Disruptive Innovation in International [...]
Canada has committed an additional $3.5 billion to maternal and newborn child health (MNCH), from 2015 to 2020. This is an amount higher than what non-governmental organizations were calling for. The present commitment made in 2010 at the Muskoka G8 summit expires in 2015. This new announcement [...]
As Canada’s maternal, newborn and child health summit — the first of its kind — kicks off today, the Conservative government might very well pat itself on the [...]
This is a preliminary post, while we update our time-series data. All figures are in Canadian dollars and on a Canadian fiscal year basis, and therefore may have slight differences compared to OECD-DAC figures (in US$ and calendar year basis). All data come directly from Canada’s Department of [...]
Despite Canadians’ self-image as a generous international leader, our global influence in the fight against poverty is dwindling. Canada is struggling to figure out what we want our ever-scarce aid dollars to achieve at a time when new players are rising and the geography of poverty is changing [...]
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) has released their preliminary data on foreign aid spending for 2013. The data show an increase in aid of around 6% in 2013 compared to 2012. At nearly $135 billion, net foreign aid reached an [...]
In the year 2000, world leaders adopted the Millennium Declaration, a global commitment to a peaceful, prosperous, and equitable world. The declaration included a set of targets for development and poverty reduction to be reached by 2015. These development targets are known as the Millennium [...]
The first week of February is International Development Week. It is an opportunity to celebrate Canada’s efforts in alleviating poverty around the world, and also an opportunity to think about Canada’s role in international development in 2014 and [...]
Mexico is the world’s 10th-largest oil producer and has some of the largest reserves in the Western Hemisphere. However, most of the easy-to-access reserves have been consumed, and the country’s state oil company Pemex lacks the funds and technology needed to exploit deep-water oil and shale [...]
The purpose of the post is to highlight data and technical details for an ongoing project, which will also be the subject of our work at the Open Data for Development Challenge (Montreal). Readers should first familiarize themselves with the general details outlined [...]
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